Following Bush lead, Obama moves to block challenge to wiretapping program
John Byrne | RawStory.com The Obama Administration’s full motion to dismiss can be read here (PDF). President Barack Obama invoked “state secrets” to prevent a court from reviewing the legality of the National Security Agency’s warantless wiretapping program, moving late Friday to have a lawsuit that challenged the program dismissed. The move — which holds that information [...]
Should Obama Control the Internet?
Steve Aquino | MotherJones.com Should President Obama have the power to shut down domestic Internet traffic during a state of emergency? Senators John Rockefeller (D-W. Va.) and Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) think so. On Wednesday they introduced a bill to establish the Office of the National Cybersecurity Advisor—an arm of the executive branch that would have [...]
Cyber-Security Czar Quits Amid Fears of NSA Takeover
Rod Beckström, the Department of Homeland Security’s controversial cyber-security chief, has suddenly resigned amid allegations of power grabs and bureaucratic infighting. Beckström — a management theorist, entrepreneur and author — was named last year to head up the new National Cybersecurity Center, or NCSC. To some, it seemed an odd choice since Beckström isn’t an [...]
NY Times: Mileage Tax Would ‘Track Where Motorists Have Been’
Paul Joseph Watson | PrisonPlanet.com A New York Times article about the different test studies being conducted as a precursor to the introduction of a CO2 or mileage tax admits that cars will contain tracking devices that will record where motorists have been. Obama’s transportation secretary Ray LaHood recently caused controversy when he let slip that [...]
Obama administration defends telecom immunity
Rachel Oswald | RawStory.com The Obama Justice Department continues to stand behind a Bush era law meant to prevent lawsuits against telecommunications companies accused of illegally sharing private customer information with intelligence agencies. In a brief filed late Wednesday obtained by Raw Story, the Department of Justice provided its views to Chief U.S. District Judge Vaughn [...]
Napolitano debates Real ID
*Looks like we will find ourselves the center of attention as much of the REAL ID ACT has gotten a facelift with the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative program.* Audrey Hudson | Washington Times As governor of Arizona, Janet Napolitanowas no fan of the Real ID program that sets federal standards for state-issued driver’s licenses which will be [...]
Bill proposes ISPs, Wi-Fi keep logs for police
Declan McCullagh |CNet.com Republican politicians on Thursday called for a sweeping new federal law that would require all Internet providers and operators of millions of Wi-Fi access points, even hotels, local coffee shops, and home users, to keep records about users for two years to aid police investigations. The legislation, which echoes a measure proposed by one [...]
Transportation secretary says taxing how much we drive may replace gasoline tax
AP | Newsday.com Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood says he wants to consider taxing motorists based on how many miles they drive rather than how much gasoline they burn — an idea that has angered drivers in some states where it has been proposed. Gasoline taxes that for nearly half a century have paid for the [...]
Google Latitude keeps tabs on friends’ locations
Stephen Shankland | CNN.com Just because the Internet has broken down geographic barriers, don’t assume that Google doesn’t care about geography. The company plans to launch software called Latitude on Wednesday that lets mobile phone users share their location with close contacts. Google hopes it will help people find each other while out and about and [...]
Hackers clone passports in drive-by RFID heist
Lain Thomson | ITNews.com Chris Paget, director of research and development at Seattle-based IOActive, used a US$250 Motorola RFID reader and an antenna mounted in a car’s side window and drove for 20 minutes around San Francisco, with a colleague videoing the demonstration. During the demonstration he picked up the details of two US passport [...]
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NSA even collected credit card records
On Wednesday night, when former NSA analyst Russell Tice told MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann that the Bush administration’s National Security Agency spied on everyone in the United States, specifically targeting journalists, the Countdown host was so flabbergasted that Tice was invited back for a second interview. On Thursday, he returned to the airwaves with expanded allegations [...]
Whistleblower: NSA spied on everyone, targeted journalists
David Edwards & Muriel Cane | RawStory.com Former National Security Agency analyst Russell Tice, who helped expose the NSA’s warrantless wiretapping in December 2005, has now come forward with even more startling allegations. Tice told MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann on Wednesday that the programs that spied on Americans were not only much broader than previously acknowledged [...]
Air Force Creates “Counter Blog” Response Plan To Quell Online Dissent
Steve Watson | InfoWars.com The US Air Force has announced a “counter-blog” response plan aimed at fielding and reacting to material from bloggers who have “negative opinions about the US government and the Air Force.” The plan, created by the public affairs arm of the Air Force, includes a detailed twelve-point “counter blogging” flow-chart that dictates [...]
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Obama’s Black Widow
Nat Hentoff | VillageVoice.com Thanks to Bush and Obama, the National Security Agency now knows more about you. Barack Obama will be in charge of the biggest domestic and international spying operation in history. Its prime engine is the National Security Agency (NSA)—located and guarded at Fort Meade, Maryland, about 10 miles northeast of Washington, D.C. [...]
Israeli Wiretappers, the NSA, and 9/11
Reprehensor | 911blogger.com (James Bamford has done another great deed for the public by revealing the extent of the NSA’s wiretapping on U.S. soil, and how the NSA sub-contracts the vast majority of its work to Israeli high-tech firms bristling with “former” Israeli military intelligence agents, and in the case of Verint, a company with [...]
A first: Unmanned aircraft to patrol Minnesota and N.D.’s border with Canada
Paul Walsh | StarTribune.com Security efforts along Minnesota and North Dakota’s border with Canada are being reinforced with an unmanned aircraft that will be based in Grand Forks, N.D., and could be patrolling the region as soon as January, federal authorities announced today. This is U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s first use of the Predator [...]
ACLU wants probe into police-staged DNC protest
Felisa Cardona | DenverPost.com When a Jefferson County deputy unleashed pepper spray at unruly protesters on the first night of the Democratic National Convention, he did not know that his targets were undercover Denver police officers. Now the American Civil Liberties Union of Colorado is questioning whether that staged confrontation by police pretending to be violent [...]
Homeland Security Detects Terrorist Threats by Reading Your Mind
Allison Barrie | FoxNews.com Click here for an exclusive look at MALINTENT in action. Baggage searches are SOOOOOO early-21st century. Homeland Security is now testing the next generation of security screening — a body scanner that can read your mind. Most preventive screening looks for explosives or metals that pose a threat. But a new [...]
